Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City’s players must improve their set-piece defense after conceding twice from dead balls against Crystal Palace.
Manchester City was excellent in defensive set pieces last season, conceding just one goal in the league from those situations, but after allowing one at Newcastle last week, they fell behind 2-0 to Palace on Saturday due to two set piece goals
.”It’s behavior. Set pieces is behavior,” the manager said. “How you behave these actions in set plays. You focus and say ‘okay they are not going to score a goal and offensive set pieces say ‘we are going to score a goal.’ Of course, the taker is important, the block is important, if you want to score a goal you will block it if you want to concede a goal you will not be blocked. If you attack a ball properly.”
